Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 16

Merchant Bronne read aloud, from an old chronicle, about Prince Hamlet of Denmark, who had come over from England, landed near Bovbjerg, and fought a battle; close by Ramme was his grave, only a few miles from the place where the eel-breeder lived; hundreds of barrow rose there from the heath, forming as it were an enormous churchyard.

Who acts: Merchant, Prince Hamlet, eel breeder, hundreds, breeder · What happens: read, come over, land, fight, be, live · To what, where: England, Bovbjerg, battle, grave, heath, enormous churchyard

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merchant, Prince Hamlet, eel breeder, hundreds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	nsubj
2	Bronne	Bronne	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Merchant	appos
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	3 read	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chronicle	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 chronicle	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chronicle	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chronicle	amod
9	chronicle	chronicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Hamlet	punct
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 Hamlet	case
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Hamlet	compound
13	Hamlet	Hamlet	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 chronicle	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Denmark	case
15	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Hamlet	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 Hamlet	acl
20	over	over	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 England	case
22	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 landed	punct
24	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	parataxis
25	near	near	ADP	_	26 Bovbjerg	case
26	Bovbjerg	Bovbjerg	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 landed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fought	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fought	cc
29	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 landed	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 battle	det
31	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fought	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 close	punct
33	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 grave	csubj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 Ramme	case
35	Ramme	Ramme	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 close	obl
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 grave	cop
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 grave	nmod:poss
38	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 miles	punct
40	only	only	ADV	_	43 miles	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 miles	det
42	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 miles	amod
43	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 grave	conj
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 place	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 place	det
46	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 miles	nmod
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 lived	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 breeder	det
49	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 breeder	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 eel	punct
51	breeder	breeder	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 lived	nsubj
52	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 place	acl:relcl
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 rose	punct
54	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 rose	nsubj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 barrow	case
56	barrow	barrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 hundreds	nmod
57	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
58	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	57 rose	advmod
59	from	from	ADP	_	61 heath	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 heath	det
61	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 rose	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 forming	punct
63	forming	form	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 rose	advcl
64	as	as	SCONJ	_	69 churchyard	mark
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 churchyard	nsubj
66	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 churchyard	cop
67	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 churchyard	det
68	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 churchyard	amod
69	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 forming	advcl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	past	Merchant			aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come over	past · perfect	Prince Hamlet of Denmark		England	over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from england=Initial_Location
3	land	past			Bovbjerg		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fight	past		a battle			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent
5	is a	past		Merchant's grave and a few miles from the place			tree rules
6	live	past	the eel breeder				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	rise	past	hundreds of barrow		the heath; there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from heath=Initial_Location
8	form	gerund	hundreds of barrow not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is a	past	breeder	a enormous churchyard			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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